- = Ranunculus chordorhizos Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 723 (1867)
Glabrous perennial, 5–10 cm tall; rosettes tufted, on stout creeping or ascending rhizomes. Lvs suborbicular, deeply (rarely shallowly) 3-lobed to 2-ternatisect, coriaceous, glaucous, 5–10 cm long; lobes toothed, crenate or dissected into linear obtuse segments, irregularly pitted with shallow brown depressions distinct from the network of grooves over the veins. Scapes 1-flowered, erect at flowering, recurved at fruiting. Fls 3–5 cm diam. Sepals spreading, glabrous. Petals 5–6, yellow, obovate-cuneate; nectaries 1–(3), 1–4 mm from petal base, naked. Receptacle glabrous. Achenes 12–20, subglobose, turgid, glabrous; body 2.5–3 mm long; beak straight or curved, 2.5–3.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]